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Specification of Letters Patent. Patgntqed Application filed December28, 1918. Serial No. 12,458,590.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID WIENER, a citizen of the United States,residing atNew York city, in the county of Bronx, State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dolls; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the This invention relates to dolls, andpar ticularly to the structure of the headand shoulders of dolls of thestuffed or filled t Y e. 3

l Heretofore it has been the practice to provide dolls of this type withheads formed with integral necks adapted to, be sewed or otherwiseattached to the usual fabric body of the doll. In case of breakage ofthe head, and this is liable to occur even. with the best of theso-called unbreakableheads, it is customary. to discard the entire dollor to send itawayto be repaired, for while new heads are readilyobtainable, it is somewhat inconvenient, and also injurious to the bodycovering of the doll, to remove the old head from the body, particularlyif the latter is stuffed with sawdust or similar material. In otherwords, one usually finds it easier to discard the entire doll andpurchase a new one, than to attempt to replace the damaged, head.

It is an object of this invention to avoid the loss incident to stuffeddolls of the usual construction, by providing a separate head piecesuitably connected togather so that in case of breakage of the head, itcan be quickly and easily replaced without the necessity of removing theshoulder piece from the body. This construction possesses the furtheradvantage over dolls of the usual construction, that a number ofdifferent heads maybe provided for each body, and since these heads maybe easily interchanged, a child can obtain different expressions andother characteristics of the head of its doll, thereby increasing theuse-- fulness of the doll as a source of amusement for the child.

Other advantages of the invention will appear from a detaileddescription of certain preferred embodiments as illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 shows an arrangement provided with one kind of detachableconnection and one mode of attaching the shoulder piece to the body ofthe doll; Figs. 2?, and are elevation and plan views, respectively, of adetachable connection in which threads is avoided; Figs. 4 and showother arrangements that may be employed for attaching the heads to theshoulder pieces, and also a modified arrangement for attaching theshoulder piece to and Figs. 6, 7 and 8 represent in elevation -and plan.a still further arran ment for detachably connecting a head to eshoulder piece.

In Fig. 1 the shoulder niece l to be sewed to the fabric body 11 2. andthe arms 13 may be attached to the Slfltzii of the shoulder piece bysuitable connecting devices 14. The shoulder piece provided with aninwardly extending soclrct l. is screw threaded to receive the neck tion16 of the head 17. lVith this arrangement it is intended that theshoulder piece shall remain permanently attached to the body of thedoll, and there is no pose. of the stufling falling from i r when thehead is removed, the shoulder piece forms a closure contents oi thebody. While one pair head is shown, any

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.icnlar may be provided, and these heads can be quickly interchanged asdesired.

' Figs. 2 and 3 show an arrangem nt that may be employed in case it isdc eliminate the use of screw threads in the structure of the head andshoulder piece. In this case the shoulder piece 10 is, as in lg. 1,sewed to the body of the doll and carries the arms. provided with an aierture having outwardly extending radial sl ot's 18' adapted to receivecorrespondingly s taped lugs 19 projecting m I she slots are so disposedwith relation to the W from the neck portion 16 of the head.

shoulder piece that when the head is in normal relation to the body, thelugs idwill occupy substantially the position shown in Fig. 3. In orderto hold the headin this position so that and disengagedfrom theshoulderpiece. a. plate 20 of cardboard, thin metal or similar" materialmay be placed at the top of the shoulder piece and pressedupwardlyagainst the lugs on the neclr by the stufiing 11* the doll.

. In Figs. 4 and 5, the shoulder 10 the use of screw 69 the body of thedoll,- s5

5 which it number of heads each formed with a screw threaded neckportion red to The top of the shoulder piece is as it will not be easilyturned shoulder piece is provided with a threaded I draw the movablemember stud 21, onto which the head may be screwed. In Fig. 5 theshoulder piece is formed with an inwardly extending socket 22 providedwith a central rovided with an inwardly threaded socket adapted to fitin the annular recess formed in the shoulder piece.

Figs. 6, 7 and 8 show another arrangement that may be employed forattaching the head to the shoulder piece. In this case the shoulderpiece is closed at its top to prevent the leakage of the stufiing, andis additionally provided with an inwardly directed flange 2 1' ofsubstantially semi-circular contour. The bottom of the neck is providedwith an outwardly extending flange 25 adapted to fit under the flange24:. For holding the head in place when inserted a coiiperating flangedmovable member 26 of semi-circular contour is provided, and thisinovahleinrember is connected to the'lixed flange 24: by ,an elasticband 27 located beneath the neck of the doll and adapted to against thefixed member to hold the head in place. this arrangement it is onlynecessary to draw member 26 forwardly to permit a head to be removed 9rreplaced, and when the movable member is released it will be drawnagainst the front of the neck portion to hold the head securely inplace.

stud 23 to which the headmay be secured, the head being substantiallyWith- While the stufiing of the doll has been shown as filling theshoulder piece in some of the figures, it may be kept out of theshoulder piece by a wall 28 of any suitable material, fitted into thebottom of the shoul- ,der piece as shown in Figs. 6 and. 7. Thisarrangement results in a saving of stuiling material and also leaves theshoulder piece empty or other mechanical arrangements that may beapplied to the doll.

I claim:

In a stufied doll, the combination of a stuffed body a shoulder piecesecured thereto, and a head formed separately'from the shoulder piece,said shoulder piece being provided with one element or" a detachableconnection and said head being provided with another element of saidconnection, said elements cotiperating to hold the head rigidly on theshoulder piece so that the head and shoulder piece constitute in'efi'ecta single rigid structure, and said elements being employed fordetachably connecting for the reception of voice-producing readilyconnectible to permit ready appli-

